He said: “You are very sexy. Very. I will get you in a super bikini next week. I bet you will look very dishy in it. You are a very very dishy bird.
“I want to make love to you again so much. Things in the front of my trousers are getting very hard when I talk to you like this. I could make violent love to you all night.”
But despite the whirlwind start to their marriage, the romance did not last.
After four years, Ekland divorced the man she dubbed ‘a monster’.
Years later, she revealed just why she fell for Sellers, saying: “I was very young and he swept me off my feet.”
But she explained their relationship deteriorated rapidly, not helped by her youth.